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He and Florence Harriet Futter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis S. Futter of Brooklyn, were married in that borough on March 1, 1935. They are the parents of a son Yale Myron Murov, born in Brook- lyn on October 27, 1941.
The family worships at the Hebrew Synagogue.
A. HOLLY PATTERSON-Among the foremost members of the bar of Nassau County, A. Holly Patterson is also the chief public official of the town of Hempstead, his native place.
Mr. Patterson's father, Archibald G. Patterson, was a native Long Islander, born in what was then the city of Brooklyn and is now the borough of Brooklyn in the city of New York. He moved to Nassau County, where he became a contractor dur- ing the early days of the transformation of that once- rural area into a region of beautiful suburbs, and he also served as superintendent of highways of the town of Hempstead. Archibald G. Patterson, who is now retired, married the late Caroline M. Maguire, like himself born in Brooklyn. There were five chil- dren: Charlotte C., Florence I., Bertram M., T. LeRoy and A. Holly Patterson, about whom this sketch was written. He was born in Hempstead on May 31, 1898. After attending the public schools of East Hempstead and the Hempstead High School, from which he graduated with the class of 1916, he entered Syracuse University at Syracuse, New York, where he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts upon graduating in 1920. Having selected the law as his career. A. Holly Patterson enrolled at the Law School of Columbia University, and gradu- ated with the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1923.
In the following year, 1924, Mr. Patterson was admitted to the bar, and practiced in New York City with the firm of Middlebrook and Borland until 1927, then entered on the practice of his profession in his native Hempstead, where he has continued to reside and practice ever since. He is now the senior member of the law firm of Patterson and Christ. This firm has an extensive general practice, and Mr. Patterson
has also been admitted to the Federal Court and the United States Supreme Court.
Engaging from an early day in civic and political affairs, Mr. Patterson served as corporation counsel of the village of Hempstead from 1927 to 1933, and from 1934 to the present writing he has been presid- ing supervisor of the town of Hempstead except dur- ing the period he served in the United States Armed Forces.
As a young man during the first World War, A. Holly Patterson served in the United States Army as a member of the 18th Field Artillery, and in World War II he also answered the call to the colors, join- ing the United States Army, in which he held the rank of lieutenant commander.
Mr. Patterson is a director of the Second National Bank and Trust Company of Hempstead. A promi- nent figure in fraternal affairs in his community, he belongs to the Morton Lodge of the Free and Ac- cepted Masons, No. 63, to the Consistory and to the Kismet Temple of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, as well as to No. 1485 of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of which he is a past exalted ruler, and to the Hempstead Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Mr. Pat- terson also holds membership in the Hempstead Country Club, the Columbia University Club and the New York Athletic Club of the city of New York. In religion he is a member of the Presbyterian church. His hobbies are sports and fishing. Formerly Mr. Patterson was a trustee of Adelphi College. He belongs to the New York State and Nassau County Bar associations.
HENRY L. FLEET-A native of the eastern regions of Long Island's "maritime province," Suffolk County, Henry L. Fleet has achieved a notable career entirely within the boundaries of his native section, and at the comparatively early age of forty-two years is a power in financial circles on Long Island, as presi- cent of the Mattituck National Bank and Trust Com- pany.
Born at Cutchogue on the North Fork, Henry L. Fleet is a son of the late Harry L. Fleet, a prosperous farmer of that village, who died in 1929, and of his wife Ida R. (Cooper) Fleet, a native of Mattituck, who passed away in 1913. Of this union Henry L. Fleet was born on January II, 1904. After his early schooling he enrolled at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, from which he gradu- ated in the spring of 1925. In that same year he entered the employment of the Mattituck National Bank and Trust Company, with which he has been continuously associated since that time. Beginning as a clerk, he was made assistant cashier in 1928, and promoted to cashier in 1933.
On October 11, 1946, Mr. Fleet was elected to the presidency of the Mattituck National Bank and Trust Company, to succeed the late Philip R. Tut- hill. At that time, as it was noted in a local news- paper, Mr. Fleet was the youngest bank president on the North Fork of Suffolk County. His rise in the banking world is due neither to accident nor to favor, but was achieved by industry, fidelity, integrity and a studious application to the mastering of his chosen business. In 1941 Mr. Fleet graduated from the Rutgers Graduate School of Banking, associated with Rutgers College at New Brunswick, New Jersey. His thesis on "Financing the Long Island Potato in Suffolk County." prepared in connection with his studies at this school, gained very favorable notice.
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and was chosen from among two hundred and fifty papers to be kept for reference in the Rutgers Library.
Mr. Fleet belongs to the Free and Accepted Masons, being a member of Peconic Lodge No. 349, which meets in Greenport, Suffolk County. He is also a member of the Dartmouth Club of New York, and of the Theta Delta Chi fraternity. In addition to the presidency, he holds a seat on the board of directors of the Mattituck National Bank and Trust Company. At Chattanooga, Tennessee, on June 17, 1933, Henry L. Fleet married Dorothy Cantrell, a daugh- ter of Fred H. and Ann (Hilton) Cantrell of that city. Of this union there are two children: I. Dorothy Ann, who was born at Cutchogue, Suffolk County, on December 4, 1935. 2. Sally Betts, born also at Cutch- ogue, on June 6, 1941.
HARRY JENNINGS WORTHING, M.D .- A native of New York State, and for many years a resident of Long Island, Dr. Harry Jennings Worth- ing, through his excellent work in the realm of psy- chiatry, has done much toward maintaining the health and wellbeing of his state.
Dr. Worthing was born April 14, 1888, at Nor- wood, New York, son of Charles J. and Anna S. (Pierce) Worthing. After finishing his early educa- tion in the local public and high schools, he attended college, and received the degree of Doctor of Medi- cine from the Syracuse University College of Medi- cine. Upon the completion of his medical course, he served his internship at the St. Lawrence State Hos- pital.
After finishing his work as an intern, Dr. Worthing was promoted to senior assistant physician at St. Lawrence. On January 1, 1930, he was promoted to the position of first assistant physician at the Harlem Valley State Hospital, Wingdale, New York. On January 1, 1935, he became superintendent of the Willard State Hospital at Willard, New York. On December 1, 1937, he was made senior director of the Pilgrim State Hospital at Brentwood, Suffolk County, the largest hospital in the world.
During World War I Dr. Worthing served in the United States Army. He was a first lieutenant in the Medical Corps of the Twenty-third New York Infantry Division on the Mexican border during the years 1916 and 1917. From 1917 until 1919 he acted as a captain in the Twenty-seventh Division, serving as divisional psychiatrist with distinction. In 1919 he joined the New York National Guard, and served a's a major of the Staff, Corps, and departments in that organization. During World War II Dr. Wortli- ing was a member of the Islip Town Civilian Defense Corps and was made co-ordinator of hospitals for the area. At the Pilgrim State Hospital he organized, equipped and manned an emergency civilian defense hospital with a capacity of two thousand beds. He was appointed consultant in neurology and psychiatry for the Selective Service boards of Nassau and Suf- folk counties and was awarded the Congressional Certificate of merit for such service.
Dr. Worthing is active in many professional or- ganizations. He holds memberships in the New York State Medical Society, the Suffolk County Medical Society. the Ogdensburg Medical Society, the Ameri- can Psychiatric Association, American Medical As- sociation, New York Society for Clinical Psychiatry and the Long Island Psychiatric Society. He also belongs to numerous clubs, including the Ogdensburg Club, the Century Club. and the Ogdensburg Country Club. In religious affiliation he is a Presbyterian
and attends the Presbyterian Church of Babylon. For recreation Dr. Worthing enjoys hunting, fishing, tennis and golf. He holds membership in the Nu Sigma Nu fraternity.
On June 23, 1917, at Norwood, New York, Harry Jennings Worthing married Margaret Gage Fletcher, daughter of the late Willis J. and Esther (Gage) Fletcher, of Norwood, New York.
SOLOMON RAFFE-One of the younger attor- neys at the Long Island bar, Solomon Raffe of River- head has made his mark as an able lawyer and an efficient public official, meanwhile taking an active part in political, social, fraternal and religious life in his community. Mr. Raffe is a native Long Islander, having been born at Patchogue, Suffolk County, on May 22, 1909, a son of Barnet and Esther (Krill) Raffe. His father was a merchant who con- ducted a successful general store at Wading River and is now retired.
Solomon Raffe, after graduating from the Patchogue High School with the class of 1926, entered Long Island University for his prelaw studies, having de- termined as a youth to seek a career in the legal profession. From Long Island University he went to the Brooklyn Law School in the borough of Brook- lyn, New York City, a department of St. Lawre; University. From this institution he received his de- gree of Bachelor of Laws in 1932. The following year he was admitted to the bar of New York State.
At the beginning of his practice Mr. Raffe was associated with Saxsteen and Scheinberg, until July, 1939. This firm was established in Riverhead. When Mr. Raffe entered into private practice he also estab- lished his office in Riverhead, where he has in the in- tervening years built up an enviable and lucrative practice.
In 1940 and 1941 Solomon Raffe served as town at- torney of the town of Riverhead. He is an active member of the Republican party and well-known in its councils in Suffolk County. Of the Jewish faith, Mr. Raffe is a member of Temple Israel of Riverhead. He is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, belonging to a lodge of that order which meets in Southampton. He holds membership in the Suffolk County Bar Association. Mr. Raffe is secretary of New London Freight Lines, Inc.
On June 26, 1937, Solomon Raffe was married at Woodbridge, New Jersey, to Flora Knopfler, a daugh- ter of Joseph and Malvina (Klein) Knopfler. Of this marriage there are two children: I. Charles Edward, who was born at Riverhead on May 18, 1938. 2. Neal Robert, born on March 13, 1940.
PETER ELAR-When in 1916 Peter Elar joined the Freeport police force as a special policeman, the force numbered five men. Today the strength of the department is forty-and the one-time special policeman is its chief. Chief Elar is so well-known among peace officers throughout the state of New York that for three years he was a member of the board of directors of the State Police Chiefs Associa- tion. He is prominent in Masonic activities and has extensive real estate holdings in the village of Free- port.
Chief Elar was born in Freeport on July 29, 1895, the son of Anthony and Anna Marie (Catorchge) Elar, who died in 1922. His father, a native of Chi- cago, was a hotel owner in Freeport. He died in 1934.
Peter Elar was educated in Freeport's public schools. He was graduated from the Freeport High
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School in 1914, and was a member of the football teanı.
In 1917, a year after he had started as a special policeman, Mr. Elar was appointed a "regular" on the Freeport force. In 1920 he was promoted to a lieutenancy and in 1935 to the rank of commanding lieutenant. His promotion to chief of the department occurred in 1940. Aside from its rise from five to forty men, the Freeport police department has grown mechanically also. It now has six radio-equipped patrol cars, two motorcycles and one patrol wagon. Its chief has won widespread respect for his efficient work in various outstanding or spectacular cases and has become a colorful figure in Long Island. He was a director of the New York State Police Chiefs Asso- ciation in 1943, 1944 and 1945. He is a member of the Freeport Lodge, No. 1293, Benevolent and Protec- tive Order of Elks; Spartan Lodge, No. 956, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; Valley of Rockville Cen- tre Consistory, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, in which he holds the thirty-second degree, and of the Royal Arcanum, Freeport. His church is the Epis- copalian.
Chief Elar married Elizabeth Sarro of New York City in Freeport on January 14, 1917. Mrs. Elar is the daughter of John and Angelina (Ferrara) Sarro. She and her husband are the parents of three sons: Anthony, who served in the United States Army in World War II and was wounded in battle in France; John James, who was a gunnery instructor in the United States Army Air Forces and held the rating of sergeant, and Peter Anthony, who was a corporal assigned to radio duties in the Army Air Forces.
HENRY D. GALLO is the head of a transporta- tion business that operates from Riverhead through New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Florida and the Virginia Coast.
Mr. Gallo was born in Brooklyn, New York, De- cember 19, 1900, the son of the late Ralph and Mary (Ganetano) Gallo. He attended public schools in Brooklyn and served an apprenticeship in the machin- ery trade, following this occupation in Brooklyn un- til 1921, when he established an automobile wreck- ing business at Riverhead. In 1935 he started with the Bushwick Commission Company Inc. as their trucker. In 1942 he became manager of their grading station at Jamesport, New York to date. He started his present trucking business in 1935 with one Ford truck and today he operates six trucks. Ninety per cent of his business is the trucking of potatoes. He is a member of the Suffolk County Truckers Asso ciation, the Suffolk County Farm Bureau and the New York State Truckers Association. He worships at St. John's Roman Catholic Church.
Mr. Gallo married Elizabeth Juliano, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Salvatore Juliano of Long Island City, February 16, 1918. They are the parents of three children: I. Irene, born in Brooklyn in 1920, attended public and high schools at Riverhead and married Warren Tomargo of Elmont, Long Island. They have two children, Irene and Barbara. 2. Ralph H., born at Riverhead in 1922, attended public schools at Riverhead, served three years in the European Theater in World War II, and now associated in busi- ness with his father. 3. Dolly, born at Riverhead in 1925.
PHILIP R. TUTHILL-In agriculture, public health and safety, political and civic affairs, in bank- ing and in fraternal circles, the late Philip R. Tut-
hill was throughout most of his adult life one of the outstanding figures in Suffolk County. "Phip," as he was affectionately known among his numerous friends throughout Eastern Long Island, not only gave serv- ice to his fellow citizens through the institutions with which he was regularly associated but through the many special events and emergency movements developed during his lifetime, such as drives for War Bonds, Red Cross War Funds, hospital and many other patriotic and civic projects.
Mr. Tuthill was born in Mattituck, the son of the late Philip W. and Myra (Robinson) Tuthill, in 1884. He lived in Mattituck all his life. From the farm on which he was born and which he always operated profitably, he expanded his activities into both rural and urban affairs. He became a director of the National Bank and Trust Company of Matti- tuck in 1911 and president of the bank in 1924. At the time of his death he had been a director thirty- five years, president for twenty-two. A lifelong Re- publican, he was for many years on the Suffolk County Republican Committee.
His interests and his concern for his fellowman led him into many and diverse fields. He was a mem- ber of the Mattituck Fire Department from its early days, a vice president of the East Long Island Hos- pital Association, a past councilor and enthusiastic worker in the Mattituck Council, No. 34, Junior Order of United American Mechanics, and one of the leaders in the Riverhead Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons. For year, too, he served as the presi- dent of the Suffolk County Bankers Association and as president of the Mattituck Chamber of Com- merce. Throughout his life he was active in the Cutchogue Presbyterian Church.
Mr. Tuthill married Helen Wilcox and they became the parents of three sons and a daughter: Philip W., Hull E., S. Calvin and Mrs. Vesta Bellmer.
Mr. Tuthill's death came so suddenly that it was a shock to the entire area which knew him so well. He had been ill briefly when he suffered a heart at- tack. Taken to the hospital with which he had been long associated, Eastern Long Island, he died there shortly after admission, on September 20, 1946. He was sixty-two years old.
The large attendance at his funeral and the ex- pressions of eulogy in the press were indications of the esteem Mr. Tuthill had won throughout a life- time of service in Eastern Long Island. The services were held in the Cutchogue Presbyterian Church, with the Reverend John C. Mullens. the pastor, offici- ating. Interment was in the Southold Presbyterian Cemetery.
"A fine character has left us and will be mourned by all," said the "Watchman." "The sympathy of deeply devoted. Phip was highly regarded. He had an unassuming and friendly personality, was an in- teresting conversationalist and a good public speaker, with a subtle sense of humor enlivening his remarks. He was well informed on local history and genealogy."
His widow, Mrs. Helen Wilcox Tuthill, continues to make her home on the old Tuthill farm on Main Road. Mattituck.
Philip Wickham Tuthill married Beverley Osborn of Jamesport. New York and they have one daughter, Suzanne Wickham Tuthill, born May 20, 1947.
Hull Eugene Tuthill married Elizabeth Corwith Mauer of Rockville Centre, New York.
BURNETT FANNING TUTHILL-The name Tuthill has been associated with the settlement and development of eastern Long Island since Colonial
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times. Burnett Fanning Tuthill is of the modern generation, a native of l'econic, Suffolk County, and associated throughout his business life with contract- ing and building in this area. He always has entered cooperatively into civic affairs and is a popular club- mail.
Tuthill in the ancient days was the name of conical hills found in places in the British Isles, that were known as "The Hills of God." Villages were called Tuthill and families took their title from their settle- ment. The permanent seat of the family appears to have been mainly in Devonshire, England, from where came William Tuthill (Totyl) Lord Mayor of Exeter i11 1552. Several of the family came to the Massa- chusetts Bay Colony in the New World, including John, from the County of Norfolk, who landed in Boston in 1635 and in 1641 settled in Southold, Long Island.
The gentleman whose name heads this review was born at Peconic, Suffolk County, Long Island, on November 25, 1898, son of S. Edgar and Deziah Per- kins (Fanning) Tuthill, and the grandson of George E. and Emma A. (Beebe) Tuthill, the former a na- tive of Peconic and the latter of nearby Cutchogue. Both followed their ancestors as citizens of this sec- tion of Long Island, where they farmed, took an active part in local affairs and were substantial citizens.
S. Edgar Tuthill, son of the above, was born near Peconic on his father's farm and was educated in the public schools of the town, the Southold Academy, and in a private school. Later he pursued courses with the International Correspondence School of Scranton, Pennsylvania, where he majored in archi- tecture, while at the same time continuing his asso- ciation with his father's architectural endeavors. For two years he was a clerk in the store of E. Davis Tut- hill, and then learned the carpenter's trade and be- came a skilled journeyman. In 1905 he initiated his own enterprise which he developed to one of the leading firms engaged as contractors and builders in Peconic. He became a director of the Bank of South- old and the First National Bank of Cutchogue, and joined the Master Builders' Association of Suffolk County, and the New York State Builder's Associa- tion. His clubs were the Pequash Club of Cutchogue and the North Fork Country Club. Fraternally he was affiliated with Peconic Lodge No. 349, Free and Accepted Masons; Sithra Chapter, No. 216, Royal Arch Masons: Sunrise Commandery, No. 77, Knights Templar of Greenport, and the Southold Lodge, Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Junior Order of United American Mechanics. For years he was a member of the Methodist church, serving on its board of stewards.
On December 8. 1897, S. Edgar Tuthill married Deziah Perkins Fanning, born November 24, 1874, daughter of James B. and Eleanor A. (Aldrich) Fanning of Southold, her father passing away on September 11, 1906. Mr. and Mrs. Tuthill were the parents of two children: Burnett Fanning, of this record: and Clara E., born October 12, 1908.
Burnett Fanning Tuthill acquired his formal edu- cation in the Peconic public schools, the Southold High School and the Southold Academy, before joining his father in the contracting business. Upon the death of his father in October, 1937, he took over the com- mand of the firm that has made a noteworthy name for itself in its section of Long Island. Under the leadership of Burnett Fanning Tuthill, operations were carried to new heights greatly to the advantage of communities on this northern fork of eastern Long Island.
Keenly and constructively interested in the life and progressiveness of Long Island communities, Mr. Tuthill is a member of the Cutchogue Chamber of Commerce, of which he is a past president and a present director; of the venerable United Fire Com- pany of Cutchogue, and prominent in the Suffolk County Council of the Boy Scouts of America. Fra- ternally he is affiliated with Peconic Lodge No. 349, Free and Accepted Masons, at Greenport; member and Past High Priest of Sithra Chapter, No. 216, Royal Arch Masons; member of Southold Grange, Patrons of Husbandry; Suffolk County Minute Men, of which he is a special deputy, an organization formed during World War II. His clubs include the Mattituck Gun Club and the Pequash Recreation Club, an old club of eastern Long Island. He attends the Methodist Church.
On July 17, 1923, Burnett Fanning Tuthill married Gladys Horton, daughter of George B. and Ella (Tut- hill) Horton. Mr. and Mrs. Tuthill are the parents of a son: Robert Fanning, born at Peconic, September 23, 1930, attending Southold High School. Mrs. Tut- hill is a member of Sterling Chapter, at Greenport, Order of the Eastern Star.
HENRY C. BICKMEYER-The history of trans- portation in Long Island is a story intimately asso- ciated with the progress and welfare of the region, and in that story the names of a small group of men figure in a responsible degree. Henry C. Bickmeyer is of this group, with extensive interests in other fields also.
Mr. Brickmeyer was born in Brooklyn, on April 1, 1903, the son of Fred and Wilhelmina (Frede) Bick- meyer, was educated in the public schools of East Meadow. When he was seventeen he became a mechanic and machinist, and two years later, in Oc- tober, 1922, upon a foundation of technical knowledge and business initiation, he launched operation of his first bus line. This was from Hempstead to East Meadow. In 1925 he and Russel L. Bankney formed the Hempstead Bus Corporation, of which he is vice president and treasurer, an organization which oper- ates fifty buses over four routes in Nassau County. These lines have played an important role in the de- velopment of the county, for homes and commercial buildings have risen in areas which they have provided with essenial transportation. In 1934, Mr. Bickmeyer became associated with Earl Van Horn in the opera- tion of the Mineola Skating Rink. He has been vice president of the Central National Bank of Mineola and a former village trustee of Hempstead for several years. He is a director of Orville T. Cronk Inc. of Garden City, New York, Nassau County's new funeral home.
the community goes out to his family to which he was
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